Eating Late At Night- Good Or Bad?

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“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.” “Don’t eat after 7:00 pm if you want to lose fat.” Blah blah blah. This well-known approach is recommended and adhered to by just about every dieter and fitness expert out there.

The fascination with this eating plan is based on the belief that eating late at night can make you fat. Why would eating late at night make a person fat, you ask?  Here are some of the more popular reasons:

1) Since you’re less active at night, you’ll be less likely to burn the calories you just ate. This will lead to a greater percentage of these calories being converted to body fat. … Read More

Krill Oil vs. Fish Oil

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Well, it appears that the Krill Oil vs. Fish Oil debate has officially begun. For those of you who don’t know, these oils contain the beloved Omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA.

It is an undisputed fact that we need to get these fatty acids through our diets. Every expert will agree on that, and for good reason.

Omega-3’s have been shown to display a host of benefits: promoting fat loss, improving insulin metabolism, decreasing inflammation in the body, decreasing triglycerides, increasing good (HDL) cholesterol, easing depression, etc. The list of benefits is impressive and well documented.

For years now, fish oil has been the gold standard for omega-3 supplementation. But now, recent research is suggesting that krill oil may  … Read More

The REAL Truth About Single Leg Exercises

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Recently, a lot of well-respected strength coaches started declaring that single leg (unilateral) lower body exercises are superior to double leg (bilateral) lower body exercises.

In other words, the claim is that leg exercises involving one leg at a time (i.e. split squats) are superior to leg exercises that require you to train both legs simultaneously (i.e. barbell squats).

Is this assertion true? Well, before we start to blindly “drink the Kool-Aid”, let’s take a closer look.

We will start by examining the “big three” reasons why the single leg proponents wouldn’t dare step into a squat rack (the forth reason, of course, is the fear of embarrassment from unveiling their shameful lack of strength!).

Then I will follow each  … Read More

The B.S. Train Stops Here: Part 4- Supplements

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This is the fourth and final part in “The B.S. Train Stops Here” series. As I’m writing this, I can think of at least ten topics that warrant being part of this quadrilogy. After some deliberation, I decided that it would be most helpful to you if I tackled the topic of supplements. Based on feedback, there is such little clarity on supplement use, and people generally feel they have nowhere to turn for honest information. That is about to change.

You see, the intense drive to lose fat, increase muscle mass and boost energy levels has fueled the development and experimentation of many nutritional supplements.  Unfortunately, much of the “research” out there is delivered by the same companies that  … Read More

The BS Train Stops Here: Part 3- Abdominal Training

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Of all the fitness topics, abdominal training is the one that best exemplifies the pendulum theory. You can literally get dizzy watching the experts swing from one extreme of the ab training spectrum to the other. You see, years ago, the experts were pounding the table, claiming that you must train your abs in order to prevent back injuries. Now, these same experts are claiming that you must AVOID training your abs (with anything other than planks) because it is the ab exercises themselves that are actually the nasty perpetrators of those same spinal injuries.

Well, which one is it? Have the experts recently experienced an evolution in their anatomical understanding, or are they jumping on the latest bandwagon? Before  … Read More